AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
November 12-14, 2009
Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
AUTUMN GENERAL MEETING PROGRAM
Thursday, November 12, 2009
1:15 p.m.
Discoveries in Astronomy
Kenneth I. Kellermann, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
and
Ronald D. Ekers, Commonwealth (Australia) Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Symposium Moderators
Galileo’s Astonishing Discoveries
Owen Gingerich
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Discovery of Quasars
Maarten Schmidt
California Institute of Technology
The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Robert W. Wilson
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Discovery of Pulsars and the Aftermath
Malcolm Longair
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University
Friday, November 13, 2009
9:15 a.m.
Alexander G. Bearn: A Commemoration
Purnell W. Choppin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Moderator
Transcription of Profiling in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Louis M. Kunkel
Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical Center
How Telomeres Solve the End-Protection Problem
Titia de Lange
The Rockefeller University
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Training a New Generation of Biologists: The Genome-Enabled Field Biologist
Ian T. Baldwin
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Engineering Biology for Drugs and Fuels
Jay D. Keasling
University of California at Berkeley
Friday, November 13, 2009
1:15 p.m.
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Richard A.F Penrose Lecture
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson
Princeton University
Inaugural APS Composition Competition Concert
Persiflage
Kerrith Livengood, Award Recipient and Composer
University of Pittsburgh
performed by
Curtis Institute of Music Students
Saturday, November 14, 2009
9:15 a.m.
Seized by Eminent “Domaine:” The “Vinification” of Comestible Prestige
Michael Silverstein
The University of Chicago
The Tribal Background to the Contemporary Arab World
Frank H. Stewart
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture
A Young Man from “Ultima Thule” Visits Jefferson: Alexander von Humboldt
in Philadelphia and Washington
Gerhard Casper
Stanford University